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Sumit SinghalSumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

A.M.A. Headquarters in Madrid, Spain by Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos

Determined by the masterplan that demands that the buildings footprint occupy the minimum ground floor to respect as much as possible the Business Park landscape, this building is conceived of as a volume that raises its side façades as a heavy mass over the ground.

In this way two great 25 sqm long cantilevers emerge allowing the landscape to spread down the building. The external departments of the company take advantage of this unique location: the client attention area and the large auditorium, whose slope benefits from the shape of the building.

Side View (Image Courtesy Duccio Malagamba)

The façades clearly present the solution of the structural difficulties of its design. In this way a game of tension elements placed diagonally is sketched on the glass façade which directly reflects the law of the strains of the structure.

Exterior View (Image Courtesy Duccio Malagamba)

Located at the Cristalia Business Park in the “Campo de las Naciones” of Madrid a ten thousand square meter outstanding building, which has seven office floors assigned to be the headquarters of an insurance company, resolves the matter.